We just got a new deli manager after being with the last one for over 20 years.  Her name is Jenny.  She's only been here a few days and people are already having problems with her.  She said we had too much backstock in our cooler and freezer.  So she didn't put any orders on for several days.  When the backup manager ordered chicken to come in she asked her why and the backup said because we need it.  Today we ran out of the rotisserie chickens and we don't get an order in on fridays anymore.  The backup had to call and special order several cases of whole chickens so we would have some for tomorrow.  The store manager threw a fit when he saw the bill for over $1000.00. 

The bakery department needed bread dough and a few other things like cakes, pies, and cookies to come in today and she neglected to scan the order and upload it.  Everything was already marked in the order guide and she said twice she would scan it and upload it.  Somehow I had a feeling that stuff wasn't going to get ordered. The baker is going to have to pull bread dough of the frozen order on Saturday now.   She took all the bakery overstock, which wasn't much because she hasn't oredered anything, like pudding cakes, angel food cakes, pita bread etc. and put it in the back freezer.  She doesn't want any trucks in the deli freezer.  Why have a freezer if you're not going to use it?  I mean sometimes it did get out of hand but she's gone too far in the other direction.  Now, if a customer comes up and asks if we have a certain item in the freezer we have to go all the way to the back to look for it.  Does that make any sense?  Our former manager had the bakers come in and work 5:30 am to 2:00 pm so there would be more workers there when the customers were actually in the store.  Jenny wants the bakers to come in at 4:00 in the morning and she's pushing for a midnight bake.  She wants all the bread to be bagged by 10:00 in the morning.  Just because it's bagged doesn't mean it's going to go out though.  You're still going to have bread leftover from yesterday and maybe the day before.  It gets three days.  She also wants to bake 7 days a week.  Our former manager would only bake 5 days a week and use the saved hours to do other things.  Our bakery department consists of 1  full time cake decorator and 2 full time bakers.  We also have 2 part time people.  If you devote all your time to bread nothing else is going to get done.   I talked to the head of the frozen food department today and asked him if they needed any help.  He said he'd be glad to have me.  Even though if worked in the bakery for over 15 years, I'm seriously thinking about it.  My co-workers keep telling me to give it 30 days.  They say she'll be gone in 30 days. I don't know.